The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is a QANGO, so I thought it was not allowed to promote commercial products; but here it goes recommending nine boardgames:
Pandemic
Horrified
Wingspan
Gloomhaven
Hellapagos
Caverna: the cave farmers
The Castles of Burgundy
The King’s Dilemma
there are only eight on the list now, and the article and its title have been edited to remove any mention of there how many are on the list. There were nine when it got oneboxed by Discourse.
Some good suggestions! I’m not sure I’d recommend Caverns or Gloomhaven to someone new to board games, but I agree that they’re both good games. The only one I’ve not heard of is Hellapagos
It’s always great to see some ‘mainstream’ Australian boardgame coverage. And I never realised Ella (of EllaLovesBoardgames) was an Aussie (and a Melburnian to boot)! To be fair, I know her mostly from Twitter, though now I want to watch more of her stuff.
Definitely a good bunch of games to highlight though - nice mix of styles and complexity and all that. Sometimes its the complex games that get people in - I starting boardgaming after a game of Arkham Horror - It takes all kinds